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WILDE (OSCAR) The Sphinx, ONE OF 25 DE LUXE LARGE PAPER COPIES, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894
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ONE OF 25 LARGE PAPER COPIES. The Sphinx is the first book over which Charles Ricketts had complete control, from the illustrations to the layout to the binding design. The Sphinx "is his best book... No illustrated book was ever more thoroughly planned... The result is a perfect whole, as harmonious as it is dazzling" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book, 1976, no. 262).
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